The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-11-20
THE BOSTON GIRL.

She thinks she has mission
In the field OF erudition,
And goes in for education with an energy In
tense;
She went through female college
And exhausted all its knowledge.
And nearly crazed the teachers by her men
tai Vehemence.
In striving for more culture,
She is keener than vulture.
a, ID wi j never know coItentme nt till she s
conquered all the facts.
And has grappled with the giants
In every held of science;
For the thornicr the path she tceads the
more 1t fascinates.
She believes in evolution,
And in every revolution
n hich science has effected in the minds of
those who think;
And though tbs now above her.
There's chance she nay discover
That unrevealed connective tie that's called
the missing link.
In all matters literary
there Was never yet fairy
Who coul1 put a glrdle round the earth s
great intellectual stores,
With such Well-asSured conviction
AS will brook no contradiction,
That toe cry secret chamber she has opened
all the doors.
She's special friend of Lowell's,
She has realized with Howelis,
And unlocked a fund of humor with DR..
Holmes key;
And as she is no laggard
She caught on to Rider Haggard,
And deyoured all the pages of the much en-
trancing 'she
She is up In Angio-SaXon,
And can furnish all the facts on
TIL photography SO staggering which reigned
in Chaucer's time;
And can follow down the ages
Till she strikes the modern pages
That are lured with the feryid light OF Ella
Wheeler's rhyme.
And of course It is no bother
For her to be an author;
She's at home with odes and sonnets, and
with epigrams can cope;
She can turn OFF little lyrics,
And most precious panegyrics,
And no doubt could earn her living writing
puffs for Pears soap.
Sheis high in metaphysics,
And in that better physics
Which treas of blocks and pulieys, and
inertia and force;
And on the screw and lever
One would neVer-hardly ever
Find person to deliver more practical
discourse. M I5W .Hs
Mathematics are no terror;
She can solve without an error
The knottieSt OF problems that the text
books now display;
All the 'ometries are captive
To her intellect adaptive,
AS also is arithmetic and likewise algebra.
She's not rigidly religious,
But her knowledge is prodigious
of theology theOSOphy, and all the worn.
out creeds;
And the doctrine of probation.
After death aud condemnation,
She could settle if they'd let her take the
way that reason leads,
Pagauism, Gnosticism,
rantheism, Brahmanism,
Judaism, and each schism that was ever
known to be,
She has taken up In study,
With brain that's never muddy,
And has listened to the doctrines OF aohini
Chatterjee.
She can read both Greek and Latin,
French and German she is pat in,
While Spanish and Italian she has marshaleG
into line;
And with really more than mans grit
She has conquered even Sanscrit,
And the Oriental languages make part OF mel
combine.
Should she feel communicative,
She could talk to any native
In any part of Christendom in his own ms
tive tongue;
And could give him information
From the budding OF creation
| Down to the very momeusot the times as yet
unSung,
She's the product OF the century,
And If 1 thought to venture
Remark about her usefulness In this en-
lightened year,
should say--with ell who knew her
That 1 thought all praise was due her
For expanding and developing the bounds
of womau's sphere.
EEL s-- Boston Advsrtiser.